"The music I desire must be supple enough to adapt itself to the lyrical effusions of the soul and the fantasy of dreams."

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Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections. Their nudes look like pictures in physique magazines: pinups which are both sanctimoniously asexual and (in a technical sense) pornographic, for they have the perfection of a fantasy.

— Susan Sontag